2010 Award Recipients
The IEEE Control Systems Society presents several awards annually for technical achievements in the areas of interest to the Society, as well as awards for service to the Society.
Outstanding Chapter Award
Montreal Control Systems Chapter of the IEEE CSS
Kaveh Moezzi Madani, Chair
Distinguished Member Award
Edward K. P. Chong, Colorado State University
for contributions in the area of control, optimization, modeling, and outstanding service to the Society
CDC Best Student-Paper Award Finalists
Behrouz Touri, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: A. Nedich), When Infinite Flow is Sufficient for Ergodicity, by B. Touri and A. Nedich
Masahiro Ono, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (Advisor: B. Williams), Decentralized Chance-Constrained Finite-Horizon Optimal Control for Multi-Agent Systems, by M. Ono and B. Williams
Pulkit Grover, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor: A. Sahai), Is Witsenhausen's Counterexample a Relevant Toy?, by P. Grover and A. Sahai
Sebastien Blandin, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor: A. M. Bayen), Boundary Stabilization of the Inviscid Burgers Equation using a Lyapunov Method, by S. Blandin, X. Litrico, and A. M. Bayen
Best Student-Paper Winner: Pulkit Grover, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor: A. Sahai), Is Witsenhausen's Counterexample a Relevant Toy?, by P. Grover and A. Sahai
CSM Outstanding Paper Award
Rafal Goebel, Ricardo G. Sanfelice and Andrew R. Teel, Hybrid Dynamical Systems, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 29, Issue 2, Pages 28-93, April 2009
TCST Outstanding Paper Award
Cheng-Lun Chen and George T.-C. Chiu, Banding Artifact Reduction for a Class of Color Electrophotographic Printers with Underactuated Motor/Gear Configuration, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 16, No. 4, Pages 577-588, July 2008
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
Nuno C. Martins and Munther A. Dahleh, Feedback Control in the Presence of Noisy Channels: “Bode-Like” Fundamental Limitations of Performance, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 7, Pages 1604-1615, August 2008
Control Systems Technology Award
Mrdjan Jankovic, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, Dearborn, MI, USA
for advancing automotive engine technology using novel control and optimization methods
Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize
George J. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
for fundamental contributions to embedded, hybrid, and networked control systems
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
Manfred Morari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
for distinguished contributions to the theory and industrial impact of model predictive control
CSS Transition to Practice Award
Markos Papageorgiou and Ioannis Papamichail, Production Engineering and Management Department, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
IEEE Fellows for 2009
Evaluated by CSS
Alberto Bemporad
for contributions to model predictive control of constrained linear and hybrid systems
Francesco Bullo
for contributions to geometric and cooperative control with applications to mechanical and robotic systems
Raffaello D'Andrea
for contributions to the theory and implementation of autonomous systems
Guoxiang Gu
for contributions to robust identification and control, and their applications
Ronald Patton
for pioneering research contributions in the field of robust fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control
Zhihua Qu
for contributions to the theory and application of robust control for nonlinear uncertain systems
Rodolphe Sepulchre
for contributions to the theory of nonlinear systems and its applications
Mark Shayman
for contributions to the theory of Riccati equations, discrete event dynamic systems, and networking
Changyun Wen
for contributions to adaptive control, switching and impulsive systems and their applications
Xiaohua Xia
for contributions to the observation and control of nonlinear systems with applications
Evaluated by other Societies
Eitan Altman (COM), Maria Valla (IE), Umit Ozguner (ITS), Hiroyuki Hama (PE), Stefano Chiaverini (RA), Ian Ferguson (SEN)
IEEE Control Systems Award
Graham C. Goodwin, University of Newcastle, Australia
for contributions to the theory and practice of digital and adaptive control